Broken Radios 2018

Broken Radios is a red wine made from the Whistling Ridge vineyard in the Ribbon Ridge AVA of the Willamette Valley. A cofermentation of Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris on their skins, it drinks like something in the world of Cru Beaujolais fan fiction while retaining a spice quality that lets you know it’s from Ribbon Ridge.

We knew when we made this wine that it was likely to be a one-time effort, but Whistling Ridge is a special site and when Marcus Goodfellow offers you fruit, you take it and worry about the next vintage later (unfortunately for us/good for the wine world, the Pinot Gris used in this wine has been grafted over to a massale selection of Chardonnay that we can’t wait to taste).

Whistling Ridge sits on the top of a hill in Ribbon Ridge, next to Beaux Freres and Patricia Green’s estate vineyard, yet the soils are much shallower than its neighbors and its place at the hilltop means the vineyard sees lots of wind. The result is a wine that combines the structure and spice of marine-sedimentary soils with a cooler disposition than you’d expect for the neighborhood.

This wine is vivid, with a floral quality overlaid onto slightly tangy red and black fruit flavors. Like our other wines, this was fermented by native yeasts and we also decided to include about 25% whole clusters in the fermentation to give the wine a bit more savoriness and backbone. It aged in neutral barrel for ten months before being racked off of its lees into a stainless tank for a final three months.

62 cases produced. (Sold Out)